© ✰ Bianca ✰
DARE TO SURRENDER
CARLY PHILLIPS
• release date 15 July 2014CARLY PHILLIPS
• 230 pages
• Dare To Love Series #3
(can be read as standalone!)
Dare To Touch - #4 - will be out this coming fall!
Dare To Surrender ist part of the Invitation To Eden Multi-Author Series
DARE TO LOVE series:
Book 1: Dare to Love (Ian & Riley)
Book 2: Dare to Desire (Alex & Madison)
Book 3: Dare to Surrender (Gabe & Isabelle)
Book 4: Dare to Touch
★★★★★
4.9 Stars
After ending a relationship to a cheating, domineering man, Isabelle Masters takes off in her leased Mercedes, only to be arrested for grand theft and hauled to a local police station. To her surprise, she is rescued by the most unlikely person possible, Gabriel Dare, a man she’s been attracted to for far too long. Gabe offers Isabelle freedom along with an invitation to Eden, an exclusive island resort where everything and anything is possible.
Although Gabe yearns to possess Isabelle, he knows all too well he must fight his primitive need to bind her to him, and instead help bring out the independent woman she yearns to become – or risk losing her for good.
A woman who needs to run her own life. A man who needs to exert control. Can she surrender to his erotic demands without losing her sense of self once more?
25-year old Isabelle just left her cheating and controlling boyfriend Lance.
Without money and clothes, she has nowhere to go.
That's when Gabriel Dare finds her and asks her to come home with him.
(Home to his amazing NYC penthouse.)
He's basically a stranger. Not really though.
Both Gabe and her ex run in the same social circles and she met Gabriel lots of times. And most of those times were spent flirting and looking and dreaming and wishing.
And now he's asking her to move in with him??? o.O
She's not sure what to do - of course she wants to spend time with Gabe, but she doesn't want to go from one controlling guy to the next - and Gabe seems very dominant. But in Gabe this doesn't bother her at all. He's so kind and sweet and sexy and he seems to just want what's best for her.
Gabe doesn't really know what to do either. He only knows that he wants her in his life.
After the death of his wife - he never wanted anything serious. But now, he's dreaming of something more.
The book takes us from New York to the paradise Island Resort of EDEN - where Izzy is hired to work as the interior designer in the Dare siblings' new night club.....
WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO ISABELLE & GABRIEL???
WILL THEY GET THEIR HEA???
WILL THERE BE A CLIFFHANGER o.O
OR WILL EVERYBODY DIE AT THE END???
WILL THEY GET THEIR HEA???
WILL THERE BE A CLIFFHANGER o.O
OR WILL EVERYBODY DIE AT THE END???
NOPE..... I'm not telling you ☺
I don't want to spoil anything!!! ☺☺☺
(OK - I can tell you that there's no cliffhanger ;) )
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I LOVED THE BOOK!!!
This was a quick, cute and sexy romance. It takes them a while to get together - even though they live together right at the beginning... I really wanted to slap Izzy a few times...
Make up your mind girl!!!! Stay or Go!! (I would've stayed, had I been in her shoes!!!☺)
But of course we understand where she's coming from.
She didn't have a great life growing up and then practically going from her parents to Lance, she doesn't know if she should trust the amazing life Gabe promises.
But we (Izzy and Gabe) had to go through the events and experiences that happened in the weeks before the Island 'vacation'. But once we're there - Gabe has one goal - the one goal he's had since he saw Izzy for the first time: Make her his!
We have lots of sexy scenes - a few sad and moving and suspensy and funny scenes....
I just had the feeling the book wanted to be longer - another 150 pages would've made it perfect!
There was a lot more that could've been told - it all felt a bit rushed to me.
But I still really enjoyed reading it!
It was the perfect little sexy, romantic summer-beach-read!
Excerpt:
Gabe silently thanked
God his houseguest escaped into the shower as soon as she possibly could.
The tour of the house had just about done him in. Isabelle’s oohs and
aahs had been genuine, as had her love of his favorite room in the place.
Unlike Naomi, who had taken one look at his apartment and immediately begun
calculating how she could move in permanently, Isabelle, who he had invited,
not only wanted to pay her way but she planned to leave as soon as
possible.
Not if he had his
way.
Back at the police
station, outside in the rain, it’d been all he could do not to reach out and
swipe his hands over her responsive nipples, feel her tremble beneath his
touch, and get rid of the ridiculous distance between them. He might not
know her well, but he’d always felt they’d connected. The physical
attraction was obvious. She was all woman, supple curves, her breasts
full and lush, and she possessed one hell of an ass. His cock twitched
with the desire he’d felt from the moment he’d first seen her on Daltry’s
arm.
But things ran
deeper. They’d shared banter and flirting during opportune moments when
he’d caught her alone. He’d had glimpses of the intelligent, witty woman
she was when not with that pompous ass. But not until today had he really
seen beyond the exterior beauty to the depth beneath. Those sexy blonde
curls that bounced wildly around her face were a proud testament to the
fiercely independent woman she desperately wanted to be.
The woman he intended to
help her find.
It wouldn’t be
easy. Isabelle needed gentling. Understanding.
Patience. Not his best traits, but when it came to her, he’d already
exercised plenty. He’d bided his time, knowing Daltry would fuck up
sooner or later. The balls that made him a crack financial investor also
imbued an arrogance that would be his downfall. And it had been.
It was Gabe’s good
fortune that Daltry’s screw-up had landed Isabelle at his brother’s police
station. Seeing her there had given him insight he wouldn’t have had
otherwise. In Isabelle, he saw an intriguing combination of weary life
experience and innocent ingenue. It was the innocence the most primitive
part of him wanted to conquer, to possess. Since he'd begun running his
father's empire at the age of twenty-one, the same age he'd been drafted into
surrogate parenthood to his sister, he had always gotten what he wanted.
And
Gabe wanted Isabelle.
